Ship date for 2.2.3.

Albert Chin samba-technical at thewrittenword.com
Fri Feb 1 18:01:03 GMT 2002


On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:50:49PM +0100, Michael Steffens wrote:
> Albert Chin wrote:
> > We've built the SAMBA_2_2 branch on Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, HP-UX
> > 10.20, 11.00, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.0A, 5.1, IRIX 6.2, 6.5, and AIX
> > 4.3.2. A few problems were encountered:
> > 
> > 1. source/include/includes.h blindly includes:
> >   #include "nsswitch/nss.h"
> > 
> >    On HP-UX 10.20, "nsswitch/nss.h" then includes
> >   #include "nsswitch/hp_nss_common.h"
> >    which wants <synch.h>. This doesn't exist on HP-UX 10.20,
> >    only HP-UX 11.00 and above. Our current hack is to check
> >    for <synch.h> with the following patch. Should we be trying
> >    something else?
> 
> would it be possible to check explicitly for the HP-UX release to be
> at least 11.00?  On 10.20 building Winbind is of little use, as
> its nsswitch engine doesn't work with external backends.
> No /usr/lib/libnss* libraries are being loaded.
> 
> The hp_nss_common.h and hp_nss_dbdefs.h consequently also do not
> apply to releases lower than 11.00.

Does the C preprocessor have some symbol for this (we want 11.x, not
just 11.00)? Maybe an autoconf test?

-- 
albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)




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